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Departed

יָסוּרStrong’s H5493

yasur (ya-sur)

Appears in 282 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yasur is the Hebrew word usually translated “turned aside”, “removed” and “remove”. It appears in 282 verses of the Old Testament.

“We have sinned, and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts and from thy judgments:”
Daniel 9:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Those departing, revolting
  2. To turn aside, depart(Qal) · (Polel) to turn aside · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) to be taken away, be removed
How it's translated
  • he turned aside 19
  • and he removed 13
  • remove 13
  • to turn aside 13
  • and i will remove 9
  • depart 9
  • they turned aside 8
  • they were removed 8

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Kings 31
  • Isaiah 23
  • 1 Samuel 21
  • 2 Chronicles 20
  • Job 17
  • Proverbs 17

30 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 282 verses, by book
Ruth 1
4:1
1 Chronicles 2
13:1317:13
Nehemiah 1
9:19
Esther 3
3:104:48:2
Ecclesiastes 1
11:10
Lamentations 2
3:114:15
Amos 2
5:236:7
Zephaniah 2
3:113:15
Zechariah 3
3:49:710:11
Malachi 2
2:83:7
Hebrew dictionary

יָסוּר yasur · departed

those departing, revolting

סוּר sur · to turn aside

: remove 1) to turn aside, depart 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to turn aside, turn in unto 1a2) to depart, depart from way, avoid 1a3) to be removed 1a4) to come to an end 1b) (Polel) to turn aside 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to turn aside, cause to depart, remove, take away, put away, depose 1c2) to put aside, leave undone, retract, reject, abolish 1d) (Hophal) to be taken away, be removed

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “depart” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

DEPART, verb intransitive

  1. To go or move from.“DEPART from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire” Matthew 25:41
  2. To go from; to leave; to desist, as from a practice.
  3. To leave; to deviate from; to forsake; not to adhere to or follow; as, we cannot depart from our rules.“I have not departed from thy judgments” Psalms 119:102
  4. To desist; to leave; to abandon; as, he would not depart from his purpose, resolution, or demand.
All definitions and other forms of “depart”
  1. To be lost; to perish; to vanish; as, his glory has departed.
  2. To die; to decease; to leave this world.“Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, according to thy word” Luke 2:29
  3. To cease.
  4. To deviate; to vary from.
  5. To vary; to deviate from the title or defense in pleading.
  6. To part with.

DEPART, verb transitive

To divide or separate; to part.

    DEPART, noun

    1. The act of going away; death.
    2. Division; separation.

    Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

    Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.